The cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

我们预计每年用于拯救文明的开支合计不到2000亿美元，相当于目前全球军费开支的六分之一。

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Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

然而，我们预计每年用于拯救文明的开支合计不到2000亿美元，相当于目前全球军费开支的六分之一。

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Amid the current concerns about the federal deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxury—as if saving one-thousandth of a single year's budget would solve our problems.

在当前对联邦赤字的担忧中，“伸手摘星”的尝试似乎是一种可有可无的奢侈——似乎只要一年省下千分之一的预算就能解决我们的问题。

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Mr Karr sees the current rhetoric about saving salmon as beside the point.

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It has allowed the current strategy for saving the euro to continue.

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They point out that the current system discourages saving, by taxing it twice: once when the initial income is earned, and again when the returns to investment are reaped.

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